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Philosophy uses these declarations guardedly and does not approve of such potentially dangerous ones as "I am God!" or "I am one with God." Instead, it uses the more guarded ones like "I am in God" or "God is in me," and these only after a preparation has elapsed with self-humbling phrases like "I am nothing" and "Take my ego, swallow it up, O Thou Divinity." Otherwise the truth is half-understood and misused, while the relation between the Overself and its shadow-self becomes a source of mischievous illusion and intellectual confusion.

-- Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 6 : Mantrams, Affirmations > # 116